My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.